Caring for your kids interests is GAY men!

-twitter blue user & divorced twice

In the 90s, especially in high school environments, homophobia wasn’t just common, it was socially reinforced. Gay was used as an insult, casually and constantly. People rarely questioned it. Teachers didn’t intervene unless things turned violent, and even then, the issue addressed was the aggression, never the prejudice. It was an era when appearing different, even slightly, could make you a target. Most people avoided standing out if they could help it.

During that time my grandma gave me a pink terrycloth nightgown. On her it was a nightgown, but on me it fit more like a long shirt. I thought it was amusing and comfortable, so I wore it regularly without giving it much weight.

Each time someone hurled gay slurs at me, I replied, “I’m secure enough not to care what other people think. Can you say the same?” They usually followed up with more immature remarks, which I’d call out too. The problem wasn’t what I wore, it was that I wasn’t afraid to wear it.

The manliest thing a man can do is whatever the hell he wants.

Only those macho dudes think that though. Literally everyone else know the truth.

I feel like it's the "loudest voice in the room" effect. There's so many insecure men that security is rarely visible and thus ostracized as otherly.

Because it's specific types of strength that are part of traditional masculinity, not any and all types.

These things are mostly arbitrary, right? There doesn't have to be some simple, overarching principle. Masculinity can be any combination of things, no matter how difficult it is to summarise them.

I also think though that there's a real desire amongst progressives to find "contradictions" to "prove" that is bullshit. So they imagine that this guy who said that something is not manly is "afraid of his own shadow" when they have no reason to believe that. He's probably incredibly confident in his masculinity but he also believes that masculinity is something worth "enforcing".

We haven't seen him worry that he might not meet the standard, only be part of enforcing it. It's pretty silly to think that the latter implies the former

I don't know how to tell you this but man cards aren't real. If you have purchased a man card you have been a victim of fraud 😔

The insecurity is pathetic

The umbrella one always cracks me up. Lookin at these wet fools in the rain when I'm nice and dry. Such a strange hill to die on.

Yup, got em here too. We get provided either lanyards or extendable clips for our badges at work. Overheard a group of contractors saying wearing the clips made you gay. Its the dumbest shit I've heard. How can wearing an ID badge be anything?

Wearing the clip on your pants makes way more sense since the badge readers are all at waist height.

I can understand (NOT AGREE) how umbrellas and gluten free fit into their twisted view on what is 'manly'; using external sources to cope with difficulties. But mushrooms? The fuck? Just man up and eat them, they're delicious shakemysmheadmh

I can hear the mongoloids now...

Hurr hurr, mushroom looks like dick. U ghey.

Glad I left the presence of that insufferable bullshit when I left high school. That really sucks you have to listen to that garbage

It means you're not a man, you pussy!

...it also implies that "being a man" is not determined by your birth, but rather by your decisions and lifestyle, and that everyone is in fact gender fluid and able to change their gender at any time.

So basically, toxic masculinity is actually woke as fuck

You forfeit your Alpha Male Club membership and any dues paid immediately.

You are disqualified from ever becoming a Navy SEAL.

If your favorite sports team wins a championship it will have nothing to do with you being a fan.

If you have any male cats they are promoted to King (s) of the house.

It’s brutal.

It tends to mean something akin to "you don't even need to transition to be a woman, because your masculinity is already so corrupted that you effectively already are one".

This logic isn't in contradiction with their transphobia, but in fact synergises with it. Trans men are seen as having no right to intrude upon the privileged position of masculinity, and trans women are seen as even more horrifying due to the fact that they willingly eschew their masculinity — something that's incomprehensible to someone whose personal identity is 90% whatever hegemonic masculinity tells them to be.

A friend remarked to me once that one of the reasons she found transition liberating was because she had been bullied all her life for being too effeminate, so coming out as trans felt like shouting "you can't fire me, I quit!"

It's like a name that 80s cocaine-addled Stephen King would have come up with.

Maybe Beefy McSlabchest was already taken.

TM

It's like the modern caveman equivalent.

Me ugg. Me chugga. Hurr hurr chugga big name. You like dong.

You still gotta suck that Boba straw though.

What about eating it like this?

Its not a US thing. Its a loser thing. This brand of machismo is globally available.

From the other side, I got told I was “unladylike” many times and that never made me change.

you get a man card, you get a man card... everyone gets a man card!

Now we can't be half-assed to look up what these are.

Lorde and RTJ are both great. If you enjoyed Lorde but were afraid to admit it, that'd be the only thing revoking your man card.

Send noods.

Sluuuuuuuurrrrp

The best way to eat a banana is as dry chips, with Indian spices sprinkled on them.

You have 10 daughters and one son?

Man card please